When I traveled to China in my teens and twenties, I inevitably committed cultural faux pas.For instance, when I spent the summer of 1995 in China, I kept in touch with friends and family by writing letters. I had been using e-mail in Hong Kong for about a year at that point, … [Read more...]
Shatin Floating Restaurant
Even though I lived in Hong Kong for five years, I never went to a true floating restaurant.In the early 1960s, my mom ate at Tai Pak Restaurant in Hong Kong's Aberdeen district, where diners first boarded little sampans and were rowed out to the restaurant, floating in the … [Read more...]
Learn Chinese with Mandy and Pandy
I love book signings. So when my friend Tracey told me about a book signing last Sunday with author Chris Lin, who writes bilingual Chinese-English children's books, I was game.The Mandy and Pandy board book series is colorful, educational, and fun. And each book includes a … [Read more...]
Vintage travel tags
On Friday I packed the younger kids into the station wagon and headed to Trader Joe's in search of shumai and coconut shrimp. But before I reached the frozen section, this fun card grabbed my attention.I love vintage travel tags.Along the top, I spotted stickers from … [Read more...]
Postcard from Hong Kong, 1994
This postcard is so Suzie Wong, yet I bought and sent it to my Grandma Blumberg in August, 1994, a month shy of my 24th birthday.I wrote to my grandma about my shared summer apartment and how I lived with a couple of people I didn't know.Even though people did that in … [Read more...]
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